Keywords for Describing WMO Datasets
Last updated 26 April 2004
Please note that the following is a list of single keywords. These words would be combined within a keyword list (e.g. daily maximum temperature) to describe the content of datasets available for exchange.
Comments or suggestions for additional entries should be sent to Vargas_S@gateway.wmo.ch
| (any number) | Chemistry | Direction | Glacial |
| Aerosol | Climate | Dissolved | Global |
| Aerosols | Climatology | Divergence | GPS |
| Agriculture | Cloud | Droplet | Ground |
| Air | Clouds | Drought | Growing |
| Altitude | Component | Dry | Gust |
| Amount | Condensation | Dynamics | Heating |
| Analyses | Conductivity | Electricity | Height |
| Analysis | Cooling | Elevation | Hour |
| Anomaly | Cores | Energy | Hourly |
| Anomalies | Cover | Equivalent | Humidity |
| Applied | CREX | Erosion | Hurricane |
| Atmospheric | Crop | Evaporation | Hydrology |
| Aviation | Cyclone | Evapotranspiration | Hydrometeorology |
| Biometeorology | Daily | Events | Ice |
| Boundary | Day | Extent | Imagery |
| Brightness | Days | Extremes | Index |
| BUFR | Degree | Forecast | Instruments |
| Bulb | Depth | Forestry | Land |
| Ceiling | Dew | Freeze | Laser |
| Change | Diffusion | Frost | Layer |
| Layers | Ozone | Rainfall | Space |
| Level | Paleoclimatology | Rate | Spectral |
| Lifted | Period | Ratio | Speed |
| Lightning | pH | Reflectance | Stability |
| Long | Phenomena | Reflectivity | Storms |
| Marine | Physics | Relative | Stratopause |
| Maximum | Point | Remote | Stratosphere |
| Micrometeorology | Pollution | Rings | Stratospheric |
| Minimum | Potential | Salinity | Sunshine |
| Mixed | Precipitable | Satellite | Surface |
| Mixing | Precipitation | Sea | Swell |
| Model | Present | Sedimentation | SYNOP |
| Modification | Pressure | Sensing | System |
| Monthly | Properties | Short | Temperature |
| Mountain | Quality | Size | Tendency |
| Nuclei | Radar | Snow | Thickness |
| Normals | Radiance | Snowfall | Tide |
| Observation | Radiation | Soil | Topography |
| Ocean | Radiative | Soils | Track |
| Oceanography | Radiological | Solar | Transport |
| Oxygen | Rain | Soundings | Tree |
| Tropopause | Type | Virtual | Weather |
| Troposphere | Upper | Vorticity | Wind |
| Tropospheric | Use | Water | Yield |
| Turbidity | Vapour | Wave | |
| Turbulence | Volume | Waves |